In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human suffering is caused by desire, attachment or craving. As a Buddhist ...

In less than a month and a half, Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Vatican City State. The change will take ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. “I’m here because I’m a Negro, a nun ...

Sr Clare Crockett, a nun from Brandywell in Co Derry who died in 2016, is officially a 'Servant of God' following the opening of the cause for her beatification in a ceremony at the Cathedral of ...

The oldest human being in the world is Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a 116-year-old nun from Brazil who was born in 1908. Sister Inah became the oldest person in the world after the Dec. 29, 2024, ...

Who is Barkha Madan? Meet the former model and actor, who made her Bollywood debut with Akshay Kumar's Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi, and now lives as a 'Buddhist nun'. Barkha Madan is one of those ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil— The oldest human being in the world is Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a 116-year-old nun from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul who was born on May 27, 1908. Sister Inah became ...

A sports enthusiast who enjoys good food and movies as well. Her debut was a big hit but it was not until 2003 that she got recognition for her performance as a ghost in the horror film Bhoot ...

A Derry nun who died in an earthquake in South America almost nine years ago is on the path towards sainthood after a special ceremony in Madrid. Several hundred people gathered in Derry to watch ...

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